I have a tab delimited text file which is of format 
  colname1 colname2 colname3
  val1     val2        val3
  val11    val21      val31
  val12     val22       val32

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I have an array which has a list of columnnames such as @colname={colname1,colname3}; Now I want the colnames and values from the file which matches the names in the array. So that my final output is of the format 
 colname1  colname3
  val1     val3
  val11    val31
  val12     val32

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Any suggestion on how to go about achieving this?

In reply to Extracting selected column names and values from tab delimited text file by Ratna_Ranjan

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